BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:649@ssa.ccny.cuny.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T190000 DTSTAMP:20240220T152509Z URL:https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/events/spring-2024-sciame-lecture-series-dav id-serlin/ SUMMARY:Spring 2024 Sciame Lecture Series: David Serlin DESCRIPTION:This lecture will be in person and is part of the Spring 2024 S ciame Lecture Series\, titled "Access and Beyond: Architecture and Disabil ity."\n\nDavid Serlin (he/him/his) is a Professor of Communication at UC S an Diego\, where he also teaches in the programs in Science Studies\, Crit ical Gender Studies\, and the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Cognitive Science . He is the author or editor of numerous books including Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America (University of Chicago Press\, 200 4)\, Keywords in Disability Studies (co-editor\; NYU Press\, 2015)\, and W indow Shopping with Helen Keller: Architecture and Disability in Modern Cu lture (University of Chicago Press\, forthcoming Fall 2024). In 2020 he wa s awarded the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome .\n\n"Who Are Libraries For? Some Thoughts on Disability\, Design\, and Pu blic Architecture": Contemporary conversations about libraries as distinct forms of public space have largely focused on questions of access\; the r ecent lawsuit against the Hunters Point Public Library in Queens (Steven H oll &\; Associates\, 2019) demonstrates how public needs remain poorly addressed even more than three decades years after the passage of the ADA (1990). The failure to include the experiences of a diverse community of l ibrary patrons is not unique to Hunters Point. But it does highlight an im portant distinction between those who pursue compliant design\, which hews to fixed standards mandated by law\, and those who pursue what we might c all crip design\, which centers the experiences of people with disabilitie s in the design process beyond meeting fixed standards. In this talk\, I j oin a chorus of advocates for crip design who seek to move beyond the bina ry of compliance/noncompliance. Using historical case studies as well as c ontemporary projects\, I look at the work of architects and designers who have built public libraries that are inspired by disability – and\, in p articular\, multisensory and multimodal experiences of space – rather th an treating disability as an impediment to creativity. I argue that librar ies can be opportunities to rethink the civic role of our vital public ins titutions through reimagining who\, and not what\, they are for.\n\nSugges ted Reading: “Banking on Postmodernism: Saving Stanley Tigerman’s Illi nois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (1978)\,” Future Anterior 16:1 (Summer 2019)\, 87-108.\n\n"Access and Beyond: Archi tecture and Disability" answers the call for disability justice in our tim e. Architects\, designers\, and scholars\, inspired by critical disability studies\, make up the distinguished roster of speakers who situate disabi lity\, ability\, and access in pointed\, specific critiques of design\, cu lture\, and power. This series invites practitioners to probe assumptions embedded in universal design\, to center belonging in design practice\, to critique technology in relation to inclusion\, and to apprehend the rich contribution of difference in the sensorial experiences of places.\n\nAll lectures are free\, open to the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Sciame Auditorium. Live captioning and ASL interpretation will be available upon request. For access requests or ques tions\, please contact ssadean@ccny.cuny.edu. \n\nSee https://www.ccny.cu ny.edu/return-campus for current requirements for in-person visitors.\n\nT his lecture series is made possible by the Spitzer Architecture Fund and t he generous support of Frank Sciame ’74\, CEO of Sciame Construction. CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Sciame Lectures LOCATION:Sciame Auditorium (Room 107)\, 141 Convent Avenue\, New York\, NY\ , 10031\, United States GEO:40.8177595;-73.95047339999996 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=141 Convent Avenue\, New Yo rk\, NY\, 10031\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Sciame Auditori um (Room 107):geo:40.8177595,-73.95047339999996 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR